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The Loading of Zelda: Breath of the Horse
I picked up two non-Pokémon Switch games -- Disgaea 5 and BotW -- and I suspect I might be hitting the point of BotW where I should probably return it.
It's incredibly fun as a rugged survivalist taming horses and cooking food and running over animals with your horse in order to cook them game, and some of the platforming bits are solid, but I honestly feel they should have ditched trying to have this be a mainline Zelda game. I'll get to somewhere new, and then oh look there's a Guardian or Lynel or just a bunch of monsters I suck too much ass in order to kill and I game over once again.
And then it spends 15 seconds loading every time I want to teleport somewhere in order to get back to somewhere new-ish.
Or maybe I want to try doing some shrines to get my stats boosted. Well, hope you like spending 10 seconds in unnecessary cutscenes and 15 seconds loading and then another 5 seconds loading in order to figure out what each shrine's about, because you skipped checking it earlier because you didn't want to waste a bunch of time on cutscenes and loading screens.
It's completely gorgeous and I enjoy doing sidequests, but the whole thing where your stats go up primarily after doing dungeons ends up actively detrimental to my experience, because I just ... I keep dying! I am dying repeatedly with the best armor I can find! I've found around 30 shrines and completed 11 of them, and I've found the towers for over half the map, and most of my explorations do absolutely nothing for helping me get better at exploring, because there's no clear progression of what thing you do in order to get better at doing the next thing.
I completely adored Majora's Mask and I liked large swathes of Wind Waker (except when I got stuck in Tower of the Gods, which sucked ass all around), and BotW is certainly addictive, but damn, I want some more numbers to go up. I want to be allowed to suck at this game without spending forever in goddamn loading screens.
It's incredibly fun as a rugged survivalist taming horses and cooking food and running over animals with your horse in order to cook them game, and some of the platforming bits are solid, but I honestly feel they should have ditched trying to have this be a mainline Zelda game. I'll get to somewhere new, and then oh look there's a Guardian or Lynel or just a bunch of monsters I suck too much ass in order to kill and I game over once again.
And then it spends 15 seconds loading every time I want to teleport somewhere in order to get back to somewhere new-ish.
Or maybe I want to try doing some shrines to get my stats boosted. Well, hope you like spending 10 seconds in unnecessary cutscenes and 15 seconds loading and then another 5 seconds loading in order to figure out what each shrine's about, because you skipped checking it earlier because you didn't want to waste a bunch of time on cutscenes and loading screens.
It's completely gorgeous and I enjoy doing sidequests, but the whole thing where your stats go up primarily after doing dungeons ends up actively detrimental to my experience, because I just ... I keep dying! I am dying repeatedly with the best armor I can find! I've found around 30 shrines and completed 11 of them, and I've found the towers for over half the map, and most of my explorations do absolutely nothing for helping me get better at exploring, because there's no clear progression of what thing you do in order to get better at doing the next thing.
I completely adored Majora's Mask and I liked large swathes of Wind Waker (except when I got stuck in Tower of the Gods, which sucked ass all around), and BotW is certainly addictive, but damn, I want some more numbers to go up. I want to be allowed to suck at this game without spending forever in goddamn loading screens.